I need a nap like nobody's business, plus concert write-ups will take a lil more time than what I have before metaphysics today, so wait a lil more.. in the meantime though, I have songs for you. Hard to just pick three, but I know if I put up more you'll be less likely to get.

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know (single, probably the most generally-appealing one, the song I first heard of theirs, might be the most solid of the lot..was enough to make me fall in love, though I've other favourites now.)

Keane - Bedshaped (OMG GET THIS SONG. it was in my head all saturday, and blew me away both nights, I was bouncing waiting for them to get to it again saturday night, I could hear this song forever. it..just..get it.)

Keane - Bend and Break (and this one's just wonderful too, so bright and good and carries your soul off and away into brightness and yay. <3)


omfg they're fantabulous. They're incomprehensably amazing live, there's so much passion and-- look, by the second song of their set they had tears in my eyes from sheer rapture. *G* I love, so much. Now, while stupid people behind me were writing them off as "a Coldplay ripoff", that's really not the case.. and anyway, Coldplay wasn't the only one toting that sort of sound a few years back, you had Travis and Starsailor and more right alongside them. (Initially I liked Travis far better than Coldplay..). That and everyone compares everything to Coldplay and it's annoying. *giggles* Admitedly these guys are in sort of the same vein, but..it's a lot brighter, a lot more..summer day when you look up and see the sun shining brightly through green leaves, everything luminescent and bright and full and your heart breaks in happiness. You know. *G* (Also in sadness on some of their songs, "We Might as Well be Strangers" kiiiillled me at the shows..)
Piano drums and singer. That's it. (Though there's guitar showing on the album, live it was just the three of them.) But holy hell do they have a huge sound.. it's the singer who's really been blowing me away, full of passion but also able to shade things very delicately.. open and full and emotive and.. and good.
(Plus he's the most adorable lil U2 fanboy, he was so gushing all through their sets in MSG over the weekend, and he's socute. <3)

ok I'm done now. *giggles*

I love it when hunches like this are right.. jumping between performances in different cities for Live8 (yay internet), I happened to land on theirs a little ways in, and stopped to listen cos I knew they were opening for U2 (who generally have good taste in music *g*), and.. I really, really loved. Rough quality streaming sound and video, song and a half, and I was still able to feel something there that told me they might be really, really awesome. And they so are. \0/